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Prescott City Council Regular Voting Meeting—August 29,2006 Page 10 Accommodating developers at the expense of current residents is ‘11110r inappropriate and immoral. All decisions that benefit well healed developers at the expense of the surrounding neighborhoods smells like cronyism and corruption. This must stop. I ask that the re-zone be denied and all future consideration of using S. Virginia Street as an alternative thoroughfare to Mount Vernon be denied and denounced. Thank you. Kevin Tighe,249 South Virginia Street" Mr. Guice responded to the letter admitting the first correspondence that went out advised people they could speak on the 15th. He suggested that the Council may want to consider opening public hearings at a Study Session and not closing it and continuing to hold the public hearing at the voting session in the future. Councilman Blair asked what the General Plan called for in this area and Mr. Guice replied SF-18 or SF-35 would be consistent with the General Plan. Bruce Evans,744 City Lights Drive— • Urged Council to vote no on this project. • He was very familiar with the traffic in The Foothills. �rr • There was a stop sign at Autumn Breeze that no one paid any attention to. • Phase 3 of The Foothills was built after Mr. Evans moved in and he was downhill from it. • Many zoning changes had been previously approved. Other subdivisions already approved were expected to begin to develop soon and the traffic was going to increase with each one. • If The Homestead was approved with 36 more homes the traffic would have been increased by 300%to 400%. • Increased traffic would create a lot of danger. • They could still build 16 lots. • The canyon echoes a lot of noise. • Issue was the impact on the lives of the people living there; the environment;the canyon;the fumes from large trucks. Robert Reuillard,748 N.Sunset Ridge, Prescott Valley, • Speaking on behalf of the Homeowners Association of Foothills. • He noticed in an April 7 memo to Mike Bacon from Jeff Lowe, talked about the floodplain and it said the lot density looked too high for hillside development. • All three projects would share Senator Highway which was reported to be in desperate need of repair.